Off to Draycote on Thursday and wanted to know if the fishing has improved of late. Also what method and locations are proving fruitful. Looked on Rutland Gillies but its not been up dated for a week or two. Any info would be gratefully received.
Cheers

WAJ

Fished Draycote yesterday with 6 others. Was a hard days fishing but still very enjoyable. What was spooned out comtained very little, but some blood worms. All the plucks seemed to be a bit timid, they didnt seem to want to feed and gettin the fish to stick seemed hard, i lost 4 fish which i had played for a while couple lost through my fault but my far more experianced boat partner found the same. Are group fished floating, int and fast sink and all meathods cought fish. All on a slow retrive. damsels and orange blobs worked. Green and black seemed to do the trick but not exclusivly. not sure if the weather the day before had put them off. Still most people bagged up or got to 7 fish some had 9 - 10 fish. Some 5lb plus fish coming out in our groups lot.
Hope you have a good day.

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Forgot to say. Are group although trying other spots caught the vast majority of fish in toft ancored up.

i fished the bank sunday, found it difficult to locate the fish probably after the wind on saturday mixed it up. took 2 off hensborough bank on intermediate black/green montana. the last couple of visits the wind has been west to north / west and i would say lin croft past the corn field has fished very well. many patterns are working minkies / zonkers / humungus / diawl bachs have all produced fish for me in the last 2 weeks.
tight lines
charlie

HI Waj
I fished saturday and sunday. Saturday blowing a gale, very tough to fish. Sunday much better. Day of 2 halves in our boat. My mate did well washing lining nymphs on a floater in the morning - had 8 by 12.30 and I only had 1. In the afternoon I got a couple on nymphs then switched to booby minkies on a di-5 and finished with 8. Try farborough bank from lodge upto the point. Also, although I didn't go down there, there were many boats anchored up near the bottom of toft, effectively sealing it off - suspect it was the coach trip from Horwich anglers, some of which seemed to have caught well.